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When Dr. Rich Barbara signed up to test the iBOT -- Johnson & Johnson's stair-climbing wheelchair -- in the summer of 2001, he thought he would be reluctant to give it back at the end of the two-week trial. But impressed as he was with its balancing...

THE Segway Human Transporter, a high-tech scooter, already has a little place in history -- as a marketing phenomenon, an Andy Warhol product of fleeting fame. For a few weeks, starting in December 2001, the Segway and its creator, Dean Kamen, were...

Segway, the company started by Dean Kamen to make and market the scooter known as the Segway Human Transporter, has named George T. Muller, the former president of Subaru of America, as its president, beginning May 1. Mr. Muller joined Subaru in 1979...

DEAN KAMEN'S motorized scooter, conceived as Ginger and christened Segway, has sparked the public imagination like few other inventions in recent memory. A New Yorker cover recently featured Osama bin Laden making a getaway on a Segway. Last week,...

April 15, 2002, Monday

History Unearthed There was a search frenzy last week when the Google search engine made available an archive of postings from the Usenet electronic message boards going back to their inception 20 years ago. Suddenly years of Net history -- and...

It is not a hovercraft, a helicopter backpack or a teleportation pod. The mystery transportation device being developed by the award-winning inventor Dean Kamen -- the subject of continuous fevered speculation since provocative clues and...

December 3, 2001, Monday

TAKE it from Mr. Hoverboard: 'IT' is not a hoverboard. No, IT, the inventor Dean Kamen's mystery contraption, vague hints of which led to a $250,000 book contract and a slew of speculative publicity over the last two weeks, could not possibly be...